gandalfe.
You would not believe how much maintenance that Grassi needs; occasionally I have to change a reed, & before playing I always have to check that G# & low C# are not sticking. 😀
Rather like having a dark suit for weddings & funerals, appearances can sometimes be forced upon us; consequently the poseur Buescher will be ideal when I play at a family funeral on Friday….my “audience” will, I suspect, be more concerned with appearance than content & tone. Or shall I take my maintenance free gold plated R&C?
Yoi, Yoi,…all these decisions….. 😉
Of course I agree with you 100%…sound is everything; but the same great sound with a nice looking horn ain’t bad….especially as that poseur Buescher was a gift from an old friend.
Best wishes, Lewis.

Eric.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that there was sales resistance at some period, to silver or nickel plated saxophones…fear of being ex military….oh, the ignominy. 😳 Apparently this was particularly aimed at the silver plated Selmer Mk6. I would not mind a brace of those if someone is too embarrassed to be seen with them.

Yes Lewis – in the late 60’s/early 70’s when I lived in London – after looking at the Grafton alto and King Super 20 tenors in Shaftesbury Avenue – I would go ‘down-market’ to Charing Cross Road, and wonder just who would ever buy the silver-plated MkVI tenors hanging on the wall in Macari’s Musical Exchange, at silly knock-down prices…

Perversely, this was just down the road from Selmer’s London showroom, where only the shiny gold-lacquer ones were in the window at much higher cost – I think the sole buyer of sliver plated ones was the military. How times change. The word ‘hindsight’ comes to mind !

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